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Off to the races: Democrats get ready to rumble

A midterm election year is upon us, and that can mean only one thing: we have entered the realm of quickened speculation about the 2028 presidential election. On the Republican side, if President Donald Trump decides to abide by the Constitution in at least one respect, the nomination looks to be Vice President J.D. Vance’s to lose. Which leaves most of the tea leaf-reading to the Democrats, with a few gaggles of candidates eyeing a run. Congressman Ro Khanna and Senators Chris Murphy and Chris Van Hollen have telegraphed their strategy for winning support from the ...

Aging Ohio population is a concern

Elected officials and policymakers in Ohio have plenty to work on in the coming years. We talk a lot about the loss of population, but there’s a follow-up to that: The Buckeye State’s population is shrinking AND aging. Data projections show that by 2040, the percentage of residents 65 or older will rise to 25%, while the percentage of those 85 and older will make an even more significant leap. This is not just an Ohio problem, of course. “For the first time in our nation’s history, we will have more older people than young children,” Ursel McElroy, director of the Ohio ...

Save Benedict Arnold High

America needs a hero! Treason has a reason! The radical libs are coming for Benedict Arnold High School! The woke socialists propose taking down his name from above the high school’s entrance! The socialist-commies want to erase his name from history, obliterating Arnold’s service as a major general in the Continental Army, and brigadier general in the British Loyalist Army. Patriots, forward! Arnold was clean-shaven, “no beardo.” The Dems shall not pass! They shall not remove the general’s good name from America’s schools, edifices, or monuments. Labeled a ...

Economists got 2025 all wrong

Well, Donald Trump has done it again! He stumped the chumps. The “chumps” in this case were the “blue-chip” academic and financial economists whose consensus forecast this time last year was of high inflation and low economic growth. Wrong on both counts. As you’ve probably heard, the GDP growth for Q3 came in at a red-hot 4.3%, following 3.5% for the second quarter. Some 90% of professional economists got it wrong — all underestimating the strength of the Trump economy. QED: These weren’t random errors. These were “hate Trump” errors. They also predicted ...

More employers now seek help from workers in skilled trades

Those who had the opportunity to spend time with younger family members over this holiday break may have been tempted to ask questions such as “What do you want to be when you grow up?” or “What are you studying in college?” A growing number of employers are hoping the answer to that question is plumber, carpenter or even conveyor belt repair person. There are so few people entering (or staying in) the skilled trades that consulting firm McKinsey predicts an estimated imbalance of 20 job openings for every one net new employee between now and 2032. Employers such as Walmart ...